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Do You Think Success Require Luck?

April 27th, 2010

Friend, do you think success require luck?

You can always voice your opinion through the comment section, what do you think about this question?

For me, success is 95% perspiration and 5% luck.

For me it is more like opportunity meets preparation. If you never put in effort, how is it possible that success will come to you?

Even if you win a lottery, it is because you take the action to buy the lottery ticket in the first place. If you did not do it, you will never win the lottery, someone else may have won it, but not you.

I don’t know what you think about it, do you think that successful people such as Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Michael Jordan, Steve Jobs and so on and so forth are lucky?

Well, maybe they are.

However, if they don’t have the determination and commitment to take massive action in their lives, they will not be the successful people that you know right now.

Take Michael Jordan for example, do you think he is gifted with the talent to play excellent basketball?

Not at all. He became gifted in basketball because he poured in tons and tons of effort to train himself to be the greatest in it.

In other words, he made himself gifted. He made himself excellent. He made himself successful!

And of course, with a little bit of luck, he grabbed the opportunity and became the best basketball player. If he is not ready and not prepared, do you think the opportunity will find him?

You know the answer very well. Even if he has the opportunity to at international level, but if he does not have the skill and preparation, he will never make it.

The same goes for every other successful person in this world.

You cannot win a lottery without owning a lottery ticket with you. It is impossible that money will fall from the sky. Success will not come to you overnight.

It is not like one day you wake up and you have a million dollar in the bank and find yourself sleeping in a bungalow with 2 Benz in the garage. This is not fairy tale.

So the lesson is this, you need to do something to achieve what you want in your life.

Seriously, success will never come to you if you are not doing anything about it.

Even if you are super lucky, you buy a lottery ticket and you win a million dollar, do you think you know how to handle this huge amount of money?

And because you are not prepared for this, very soon, you will lose all the money that you have won.

If you read the book, The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley, you will understand what I mean. Inheritance wealth will not stay long with those who do not have the skill to manage it.

If your goal is to be a star tennis player so that you can compete in the international level, but if you don’t have the skill, you will never stay long in the course.

The solution is…

Make Yourself The Person That You Dream About

Yes, you need to prepare yourself to be the person that you dream about if you want to be who you want to be in your life.

It is just like if you want to be a great golfer, you need to make yourself, train yourself, learn and improve, act, think, and breathe like a pro golfer before you can finally become one.

Without the quality, the confidence, the habit, behavior, skill, ability, mindset, belief and thinking about the person you want to be, you will never be the person you want to be.

This is why almost every successful person encourage you to read more books and learn from guru in your field. When you read more, you will think and act just like the person you want to be.

And sooner or later, you will end up become the person that you desire to be.

To make it short, you have to model the person you want to be.

If you want to be rich, find a mentor that you like and read and model everything he or she does.

If you want to be a great teacher, find out every information regarding how to teach and how to be a good teacher. After that, model the techniques and take action to be one.

It is the same in every field.

If you want to be a great student, learn and model the best study technique, and you will find your grades improve in no time.

That’s the way it works. This is how you can achieve your goals, make your dreams come true and be successful in your life.

Back to the question, do you still think that success require luck?

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How To Learn From Reading A Book

April 23rd, 2010

How many books have you read last year?

If your answer is none or just one, you’d better start planning and read more books. Most people will never read any book after they graduated from their schools.

This is one of the reasons people fail to be remarkable in their lives. If you want to be extraordinary by creating amazing results in your field, you must strive to learn more and read more.

Think about it, if you read a book in a month, you will have read 12 books full of information in a year. If all these 12 books are in the field of investing in the stock market, do you think you will know better after you read the books?

The answer is very obvious.

There are no stupid people in this world, there are only people who are lazy to read and learn.

If you read a book in a month, 12 in a year and you keep doing this for 3 years, you will become so knowledgeable in that particular field.

And when you have the knowledge, you can create amazing results in your life anytime you want.

If you’re a usual reader of my blog, you will know that I always stress about reading and learning.

The problem with most people is that they don’t really know how they can learn from reading a book. For most people, they will just read a book, from pages to pages until the end.

In the process, they will feel great and excited because the book turns them on. However, after they have read the book, they will just put it aside, and nothing ever happen.

They never apply the knowledge or skills taught from the book. They did really feel great about it, but after a few days, their level of motivation will drop to normal.

This is what happening with most people.

You can read a book that teaches you how you can be rich, but if you are not going to apply the techniques in the book, you will end up wasting your time reading that book.

Therefore, make sure you digest and make full use of the book that you buy and read.

Here are some tips how you can learn from reading a book…

1. Read And Think

This is one of the best ways to learn from a book. Don’t just read, read and read. Once you read until a certain paragraph, take a pause and think about the information you have digested.

Most people will keep on reading without thinking. Remember, you want to learn from a book, not to finish the book as soon as possible.

Reading book is not a sprint, it is a marathon, just like success did. So take a short pause and think about the questions that the author throws at you.

2. Read And Jot Down Ideas

Another powerful way to learn from a book.  Reading itself is not enough for you to remember what you have learned.

When you write down the points, you will better remember what you have just learned. This is why most of the authors will ask their readers to read with a pen and paper, so that they can write down whatever important points that come to them at the moment.

Or even better, get yourself a journal or a notepad that specially used to jot down all the important points or lief lessons that you have gone through. I have a few of these books, ^_^

3. Read A Few Times

Do you reread the books you bought?

I will reread some of my books, especially those that I found very inspiring. For example, Awaken The Giant Within, Chicken Soup – Living Your Dreams, The Success Principles and more.

When you reread the book, you not only strengthen what you have learned, sometimes you will even find something new from the book.

Rereading is a very rewarding habit. You don’t have to spend extra money to get yourself a new book, but you can still learn and get inspired by reading the same book.

If you’re skeptical about the power of reading and learning, just look at me.

I’m a nobody, but I believe that I’m providing great information from this blog and some of my e-books. And I believe you can achieve even better results than I do if you really want to.

So just decide to start reading and learning from today onward. And I would love to hear your success story, cheers.

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5 Steps To Achieve Your Dreams

April 19th, 2010

Achieving your dream is not something complicated. Well, you don’t have to make it complicated, at least.

What you have to do is to follow through these 5 steps below. And as long as you follow through these 5 simple steps, you will most definitely achieve your dreams.

Remember, these steps are simple, but they are not easy.

What I mean here is achieving what you want is simple, but it is not going to be easy. Maybe you will need to do a small and little work each and everyday. Maybe you need to wake up 30 minutes earlier everyday to take the small action.

The action may be simple, but you will need to be persistence enough to make it come true. This is what makes the process not easy.

So here are the 5 steps for you…

1. Identify What You Want

No matter what you want to accomplish in your life, you must first know exactly what you want to achieve in your life. Most people are not clear about what they want that is why they struggle through life just to find out the answer.

If you don’t know what you want, you will never achieve it. How can you reach the destination of your heart if you don’t know where it is?

You cannot hit a target you can’t see.

Even if you say that you want to be rich, there are a lot of ways you can achieve it. How are you going to do it? Are you going to invest in property? Are you going to start a business? Or are you going to join a network marketing company?

If you say that you want to get rich by starting your own business, do you know what kind of business you want to involve in?

This is why the more precise you are the better. Some people are not clear about what they want. They know that they want to be successful in business, but they don’t know what business they want to involve in.

Thus, they will end up struggling and banging their head on the wall to go through all the obstacles and feedback to finally find out what they want.

You don’t have to waste your time and money to ‘find out’ what you want. Spend some time to truly find out what you love to do the most and find out which area is the best for you.

In other words, be as clear as possible with your goal, know exactly what you want and so you can create a plan to achieve there faster and easier.

2. Practice The Rule Of 5

I learned this rule from Jack Canfield. He said that if you want to achieve what you want, just take action and do 5 things that will get you to your goal each and everyday.

This is so true. What you have to do to achieve what you want in your life is to take action.

If you say that you want to be rich, but you are not doing anything about it, you will never accomplish it. Action produces results.

Without taking action, you will never get to where you want.

3. Review Your Results

Once you have taken some action, you will get results. There are only 2 kinds of results you will get.

The first result is the result that you don’t want, which is failure. For example, if your goal is to invest and profit from a business, but you fail to make any money from it after you have poured in your effort and money, you will get what we all call, ‘failure’.

However, don’t treat failure as failure. Instead, treat it as a feedback. Do you know why your business fail? It is because you are not doing it good enough? Is it you did not run enough marketing campaign on it? Is it because of people management?

All of the examples above are feedback. They are not failure. You will fail only if you give up.

It is just like flying an airplane. Do you know that airplane will go out of course most of the time? What the pilot will do is to correct the path so that the airplane will fly on the right course again. They use feedback to reach their destination.

The second result you will get is success, which means that you successfully achieve what you want. And this is definitely the result you want to achieve.

However, you will never achieve success most of the time. Therefore, learn to treat failure as feedback and change your strategy to create the results you want.

4. Be Persistence

You need to be persistence. Do you know everyone in this world can achieve whatever they want? Do you know that you can be a millionaire if you save only a little portion of your money in the bank and invest it even with a little return?

The answer is you have to be persistence.

Just like you can lose weight and be healthy by just spending 30 minutes each and everyday for jogging. If you do this for the whole next year, what do you think is going to happen to you? Do you think you are going to be healthier?

The answer is obvious.

If you want to learn about a subject or a skill just like playing piano, just spend 30 minutes into it everyday. And after a year, you will see the results.

The question now is, can you persist for such a long time? Most people can’t, they give up after 1 or 2 months if they cannot see the results that they want.

As for those who persist long enough, they will produce the amazing results that they want and achieve their dreams.

Hence, never give up no matter what you do in your life. As long as you are clear with what you want, take persistence action and you will eventually reach there.

5. Invest In Yourself

The final step is a crucial step. You have to constantly learn about what you want all the time. The more you learn about it the easier you are going to achieve it.

If possible, learn directly from credible source.

Spend some money and time reading books from the top people in your field, take part in their seminars and join their workshops.

This is the fastest way to produce the results you want because you learn directly from people who have succeeded in your industry.

Think about it, if you spend 30 minutes each day reading about the stock market, what do you think is going to happen to you in the next 3 or 5 years?

Do you think you will have better knowledge compare with others? Of course you do. And if you make good use of this knowledge, do you think you will succeed in it?

Not likely, but you will definitely increase the chances hundred folds. And when this happen, people will refer you as a ‘lucky dude’ in the industry.

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Secret To Living A Positive Life

April 15th, 2010

Do you want to live a positive life where you find all good things are happening around you?

One of the most important factors that will determine whether you are successful in your life is your motivation, and motivation can come from positivity around you.

What if you go to the office early in the morning and the first thing your boss tells you is something bad? How do you feel? Do you think this is going to affect your emotion for the whole day?

I bet you know the answer very well. Therefore, if you want to be more productive, get more things done, stay happy, healthy and live a successful life, you must learn the secret to living a positive life.

I have been in self-improvement and personal success niche for some time. What I have learned over the years about positive thinking is that to live a positive life, it starts from you.

Yes, you are the one that is responsible for your life.

This is the number one success principle taught by Jack Canfield, the author of Chicken Soup. And it is true that you are the one who is responsible for creating the positive life force in your life.

And one of the best ways to do this is by becoming a good news broadcaster!

You read that right, the secret to living a positive life is by broadcasting positive news in your surrounding.

People like to listen to good news. Imagine that the first thing you get into your office is telling people how great the day is going to be, what do you think people will expect?

They will feel motivated and the positive energy will flow in them as well. Like attracts like. Do still remember the Law of Attraction?

It says that if you want good things, then do good and good things will come to you.

The secret is as simple as this. You don’t have to be a super motivator or a guru to motivate people. What you need to do is to broadcast good news to all the people around you.

When you tell something positive to your friends, they feel good and they will be in a positive state of mind as well. What is going to happen next is that they too, will broadcast good news to other people.

This will continue to spread like wild fire and you will see the effect very soon. All the people around you are going to feel positive and motivated. Suddenly the environment changes and everyone turns very productive and get their job done happily.

On the other hand, if you broadcast negative news, what do you think is going to happen?

Let’s say that you wake up in late in the morning because your alarm clock does not work. And you have a very important meeting to attend and you have been late.

So you jump from your bed and on your way to the bathroom, you hit the leg of the chair with your toe because you are in a rush. I know it is painful, LOL.

After you have prepared to go to your office, you stuck in a traffic jam. And then suddenly a car bangs your car from the back. Thus, you get very fed up and you get off your car and fight with the person who bangs your car.

You go to the police station and make the report. And when you reach your office, the meeting is over and you lost the lucrative deal. So you are in a bad mood and you scold almost everyone in your office.

Now, you have become a negative news broadcaster.

What do you think is going to happen to all your colleagues? Are they going to feel great after you scolded them? You know the answer.

All your colleagues are in bad mood because of the tense situation the company is in. And it is 5pm; everyone goes back to their home with negativity at its peak. What do you think is going to happen next?

All the people who are in bad mood bring back the negativity to their home, spreading negativity to their family.
Can you see the consequences right now?

I believe that this is a good example and you know what I want to tell you. Therefore, be a good news broadcaster.

When you stuck in negativity, you not only transmit the negative energy to all the people around you, you will lose the creativity of looking at the solutions to the problem.

This is why it is so important to stay positive all the time.

When you are happy, in good mood and stress-free, you are able to think creatively and unleash your personal power.

This is how successful people are able to go against all the obstacles they face in their journey to success. Even though the road is bumpy, they are able to stay positive and turn things around.

If you can do this, achieving great success in your life is going to be easy and it can come to you very fast.

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Why You Fail To Achieve What You Want

April 13th, 2010

Do you know why you fail to produce the results you want and unable to achieve what you want?

It is because of the your clarity and purpose…

If you look at the video above, you will understand the power of clarity and purpose.

For those who achieve what they want in their lives, it is simply because they made it a MUST for them. It is not just a plain wish or a should. They conditioned their mind that they MUST achieve it.

When something is a must for you, you will do whatever things to achieve it. You will force yourself to think creatively even when you are going against all odd.

This is how every successful person is able to breakthrough and produce outstanding results in their lives.

I hope you will enjoy the video clip above and I wish that you will make the decision after watching the video that you will do whatever it takes to achieve your dreams and to make your goals come true.

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5 Super Tips How To Achieve The Success You Want In Life

April 11th, 2010

Want to achieve the success you desire in life? Read this…

1. Have The Desire To Be Successful

Do you have the desire to be successful? Or do you just wish to be successful? This is one of the keys that separate successful people and ordinary people.

Every successful person has a strong desire to success. They talk about what they want all the time. They dream about the success they want. They walk, drink and even breathe about their dreams. Having a burning desire is the first step to achieving what you want in your life.

Most people are not living a successful life simply because they just don’t have the desire to be successful. Think about it, when you have the desire for something, do you think you will take action to make it happen? Very likely.

And desire usually comes from doing what you love. If you love to play golf, you will develop the desire for it. You will be able to wake up early in the morning just to play golf. You can postpone your appointment for a game of golf. This is what I mean by desire.

2. Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway

One of the most common killers of success is fear. Do you know what fear is? Fear actually stands for False Emotion Appearing Real. What you fear is actually not the real thing, it is the fear that you create in your mind.

Before you go on stage to do a presentation, can you feel the fear? Most people will because of the thoughts they think in their mind. They fear that what if they cannot deliver the presentation perfectly? What if things go wrong? What if people laugh at them?

All the fears that you feel are just within you. In other words, you created the fear in your mind. They are not even real, they are just thoughts. It is your mind that makes them real and hence, you feel the fear.

On the other hand, if you feel confidence and are ready to take on the world, what will you feel? You will feel motivated to deliver the presentation. And guess what, you will end up doing great.

Fear is something that you created in your mind. It never exists, but your mind makes it real. It is just like you know you have to start a business or invest in real estate if you want to be rich, but you fear that you are going to lose your money. Therefore, the fear prevents you from investing or starting a business.

Always remember this, you will have to feel the fear and do it anyway. The best way to overcome fear is preparation. The reason you feel the fear is that you are uncertain about something. For example, if you fear about making a presentation, it is because you are uncertain about the results, you doubt yourself.

However, if you are fully prepared and you have done it hundreds of times, do you think you will still feel the fear? The answer is obvious.

3. Get Leverage

One of my favorite quotes from Anthony Robbins is this, “success leaves clues”. What this mean is that you can actually follow through the path of a successful person, do exactly what he did and you will achieve the same results just like him.

This is why reading and learning are so important if you want to live a successful life. If you want to invest in the stock market but you have no clue how to do it, what should you do?

The answer is simple, invest in books, seminars or workshops to learn how you can invest and profit from the stock market. There are tons and tons of books and seminars out there that are ready to teach you what you want to learn in your life.

You don’t have to spend time finding all the strategies by yourself. You can “copy and paste” the success of others into yourself.

Do you think investing in the stock market is risky? Well, it depends on who you are. If you are nobody and you just started your investment portfolio, it can be risky for you. However, if you are Warren Buffett, do you think it is risky? I seriously don’t think so.

It is the same if you want to climb Mount Everest. Do you think it is risky to climb if you are not prepared? Of course it is. However, if you are a seasoned mountain climber and you have climbed it many times; do you think it is risky now? Well, maybe, but then you will lower the risk a lot more than ordinary people.

Thus, you must get leverage from your knowledge and experience. The best is to learn and read everyday, and in the same time, take action to gain more experience while producing the results you desire.

Remember, you don’t have to bang the wall or crack your head to find out how to be successful; you can just pick up a book from your local bookstore and read it to gain the knowledge.

4. Take Action And Just Do It

If you are not doing anything, you will never be successful and make your dreams come true.

It is not like one day you wake up and you will have a sport car in your garage. It is not like one day you wake up and you will have $1 million in your bank account. I seriously don’t think that money will fall from the sky.

And I don’t believe that there is a magic button or pill that you can press or take to become successful.

But I believe that if you want to be successful, there is a certain price you need to pay. Just like going shopping, if you want to buy something, you need to pay for it.

Don’t just talk about starting a business or investing in real estate, you have to walk your talk. Most people want to be rich, but they never do anything to make themselves rich.

So my advice for you is… take action and just do it!

5. Never Give Up

Never ever give up on your dreams and your goals. Even if you failed after you have tried hard on it, never give up.

Remember, success is not a sprint, it is a marathon. It is a journey, not a destination. It is not the money or the things or the prestige that you get, it is who you become on your road to success.

I truly hope that this article is going to help you in your journey to success in your life. If you read until this point, I sincerely thank you from the bottom of my heart. Let me know what you think about this article by leaving a comment.

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5 Keys To Living An Extraordinary Life

April 4th, 2010

Do you want to live an extraordinary life? Do you want to live successfully? Do you want to have financial freedom and live a superb lifestyle that you always dream about?

If your answer is a yes, this will be the perfect article for you. I’m going to share with you the 5 keys to living an extraordinary life.

Most people never even thought about living an extraordinary life. That is why most people are living an ordinary life. If you want to be successful, you must first have the heart and the desire to be successful.

If you don’t have the desire, you will never achieve it.

So the first key to living an extraordinary life is…

Key 1 – Have A Burning Desire

It is just like what I mentioned above, you need to have the desire that you want to be successful in order to achieve it. Think about it, if you don’t have the desire, will you achieve it?

The answer is very obvious. Why do you buy a lottery ticket? It is because you want to win the prize. You have a desire to win the prize and that is why you buy it.

And if your desire is not strong enough, you will never buy it. It is only when you have a strong desire about something, you will do it with your full force and make it happen.

This is the most important key that you must possess if you want to create amazing results in your life.

Key 2 – Have A Clear Vision

You cannot hit a target that you cannot see. Thus, what you need is a target, a vision, and a goal. As long as you know what you want to accomplish in your life, you can then move toward that direction and take yourself there when time come.

If you don’t know what you want, how are you going to achieve it? If you study the biography of every successful person in this world, you will notice that they all possess this trait. They know exactly what they want. They can see in their mind the kind of result they want to attain in the future.

So know what you want to accomplish in your life. Create plans and write down all the goals that you are going to achieve in the future.

Key 3 – Be An Avid Learner

An extraordinary person is an avid learner. No matter which field you are in, if you want to be extraordinary in that field, you must be an avid learner and constantly improve yourself there.

For example, someone who is very successful in real estate is willing to learn, talk, get latest news about the real estate industry. An extraordinary teacher always think about his or her students, willing to learn more and improve the quality of their students. They are willing to talk about the issue that their students face and work out solutions together with others.

Learning is one of the most important keys to your long-term success. Learning may seem like a tedious and mundane job, but over the long-term, the powerful impact that you are going to get from it is huge.

Key 4 – Have Passion

Do you have the passion to be extraordinary in your field and in your life? Some people don’t have the passion to be extraordinary in their industry and life. They will just work according to their task. They work because they had to or because their boss ask them to. They will never work because of their passion.

Think about it, if you work in the office and you don’t have the passion in your work, you will never improve. Passion is life. If you want to have more life in your life, you will have to pump in passion into it.

Most people will work during day time and when night fall, they will just go back home and watch television and then go to bed. They make it a routine that they think they HAVE to do it.

Let me tell you, you don’t have to do it. In fact, you don’t have to go to work. It is your choice and your decision that will lead you to the kind of life that you are going to live. You can decide to quit your job tomorrow if you want to, the choice is in your hand.

And if you tell yourself that you don’t have a choice and you need to work, why don’t you just pump in some passion into it since you have made the choice that you are going to work?

Key 5 – Determination And Commitment

Do you have the determination to keep on doing it even if you hit a setback? Do you have the commitment to follow through and make what you have promised yourself come true?

Successful and extraordinary people have both the determination to never give up and the commitment to do it until they achieve the results they desire. Do you have this kind of determination and commitment as well?

If you do, congratulations, you are about to live your dream life and achieve all the goals that you have set.

These are the 5 keys to living an extraordinary life, how many keys do you have at hand right now?

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